insect spiracle

UBERON:6005054 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Opening of the tracheal system on the surface of the body. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Spiracles 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

insect integumentary specialisation UBERON:6007288
Respiratory system habitatmech:GOLD.867362bd5a

Also called

Spiracles — GOLD

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:6005054 'insect spiracle' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the variant route reaches UBERON:0010019 'spiracle (sensu Vertebrata)' — a hole behind the eye in some fish. The path is Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system, and UBERON has a separate insect spiracle. The two are homonyms across phyla. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Spiracles (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7ee93ccae2)

Provenance

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